205/40/18 Tyre options.... What are you using?

[thechief]

I've just put winter wheels (17" S spokes with Vred Wintrac's) onto the wifes Cooper S and I'm trying to decide what to do with her summer wheels.

They are the optional JCW wheels that you're meant to use 205/40/18 tyres on but I've had a look and the tyres available are complete garbage. With our old R56 factory JCW I put on 215/35/18 Yoko Parada's which were downright dangerous in the wet.

The most noticable difference is how much the ride quality has increased on the 17's.

What are you all running on the JCW wheels? At a guess most of you will have went to 215/35?

[stoney]

i am doing the same with my GP wheels i am going for 215/35/18 dont know what type yet tho !!:yes nod:

[Doug_m]

Im also on 215/35 18's
Got toyo proxes t1-r's and had no problems with them. Really good when dry and pretty damn good in the wet.
Balls in the snow though ha.

As many people know tyres are down to personal prefrence.
Some will turn round and say toyos are crumbs...
Just read a couple reviews and decide from there

[Mon the fish]

My 2p on 215/35 18"s...

Yoko Parada's - brilliant everywhere except the wet
Toyo Proxes - loads of grip, great for everything you can measure, but had no 'feel' - felt wooden to me
Falken FK452's (I think) - all round good, not quite the dry grip the Yokos have but good.

I've went back to Yokos, as I don't use the car in the wet, but if you're a daily driver the Falkens are hard to beat at the price IMO

[ianking]

Ive just ordered 4 tyres (17s though) and after reading various reviews for various brands on the tyre review web site it seems that every tyre from budget to premium brand has just as many bad reviews as they do good reviews.
It makes for a hard decision.

[The Dogfather]

The falkens lasted only 4.5K on the front of my car, swapped back to Rainsport 2s as they are just awesome

[Stewart]

The falkens lasted only 4.5K on the front of my car, swapped back to Rainsport 2s as they are just awesome

Yeah I'm waiting on them being back in stock for the 205/50/16 (V over the W in stock) Plus TS had a good deal on the V when they were in stock.